Network: FX
Episodes: 32 (hour)
Seasons: Three
TV show dates: June 24, 2014 — September 7, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Adam Rayner, Ashraf Barhom, Moran Atias, Jennifer Finnigan, Anne Winters, Noah Silver, Mehdi Dehbi, Fares Fares, Alice Krige, Salim Daw, and Justin Kirk.
TV show description:
This dramatic series follows the story of an unassuming American family that’s drawn into the inner workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.
Bassam “Barry” Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) is the youngest son of a war-torn country’s controversial dictator. He returns to his homeland for his nephew’s wedding after a self-imposed 20-year exile in America. Upon his return, Barry is immediately thrown back into the familial and national politics of his youth.
He braces himself to confront the stark realities of his father and older brother Jamal’s (Ashraf Barhom) harsh rule, and finds himself at odds with Jamal’s wife, Leila (Moran Atias). She believes strongly in a firm, unforgiving regime.
Although Barry’s wife Molly (Jennifer Finnigan) struggles to comprehend her husband’s apprehension, Barry is unable and unwilling to make his all-American family understand his unease over returning home.
Emma (Anne Winters), their 17-year-old daughter, adores her father and shares his disdain for the extravagances of her extended family. Meanwhile, their son, 16-year-old Sammy (Noah Silver), revels in the lavish lifestyle that their “royal” status brings. He also dangerously tests cultural divides with his poorly disguised interest in the family’s handsome bodyguard, Abdul (Mehdi Dehbi).
Barry’s only warm memory of his childhood — his boyhood friend Fauzi (Fares Fares) — wants nothing to do with him. Fauzi is now a journalist, whose reports on the abuses of the Al-Fayeed rule resulted in his arrest and torture.
Now, Barry must now confront the life he once fled. With his father’s health in decline, everyone — Jamal, their mother Amira (Alice Krige), their father’s top advisor Yussef (Salim Daw), and even easygoing US diplomat John Tucker (Justin Kirk) — expects him to assume a more active role in both the family and the regime.
Episode #32 — Two Graves
Barry and Molly are on the brink of waging war on the Caliphate. Leila makes a bold political move and braves the possibility of a close betrayal. Barry and Daliyah face a final reckoning in their relationship. The conflict in Abuddin threatens to turn into a bloody civil war.
First aired: September 7, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like the Tyrant TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a fourthseason?
Please renew this show! It offers us something so different from all the cops, lawyers and reality shows. Gives us a whole new perspective of good vs. evil and the choices and consequences that ultimately prevail!
It’s one of my favourite summer shows! It must be renewed!!
Love this show! It needs to be renewed. Great plot, great acting!
I so look forward to this show every Tuesday night. I have not been to the Mideast but my other half has and says the similarities are well depicted. There are so many ways this storyline can go. Bassasm can decide (as it appears) that he should run the county. Bye to Jamal (he’s my favorite). We know Jamal will not step down. Then we have the son who had the gay one nighter and the daughter is the only one with a level realistic head on her shoulder. But now we have Molly’s sister who has come to stay… Read more »
Love this show! Best in a long time – typical of the Mideast struggles. I can see possibilities for several years to come, including the Barry’s wife going back to California and Barry having an affair with his sister in law
I absolutely love this show I am intrigued every week it has so much story line potential please keep this show please in this day and age the story line is so pertinent please please keep this show ……thank you lee ann
Love it, love it–don’t let it go.
Great show!! nice to have quality back on the TV
Don’t cancel this show, I absolutely love it!
Best Show running at the moment and going to be 1 of my top 3 shows ever.
I love this show! I look forward to watching every week. It is for sure, one of my favorite shows on television these days.
LOVE…LOVE…LOVE this show and especially Jamal’s character. Great acting and I can’t wait until the next episode!!!
Do not cancel this show all my family are looking forward to next episodes!! <3
Loving Tyrant!
Great cast, writing, plot line and scenery.
Yes, Yes and more Yes!
I think this could become my new favorite show